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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

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New State Welfare Restrictions Target Tattoos, Alcohol
Taking aim at what they call an abuse of the taxpayers' money, a growing number of states are blocking welfare recipients from spending their benefits on booze, cigarettes, lottery tickets, casino gambling, tattoos and strippers.
July 19, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Rutgers Raises Tuition 2.5% Despite Protests
Members of the Rutgers Board of Governors said they were moved by the students who came before them pleading for a tuition freeze at their meeting, But, in the end, the board voted unanimously to raise tuition and fees 2.5 percent this fall for in-state undergraduates.
July 19, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas Executes 1st Inmate with Single Drug
A Texas man convicted of carjacking and fatally shooting a stockbroker was put to death, becoming the first prisoner in the nation's most active capital punishment state to be executed under a procedure using one lethal drug instead of three.
July 19, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Indiana Must Pay IBM $12M for Canceled Contract, Judge Rules
A Marion County judge ruled that the state owes IBM $12 million in a dispute over the state's canceled welfare-modernization contract, but the victory falls short of the money IBM had sought.
July 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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College Mergers Bring Big Changes But Questionable Savings
Merging colleges is usually a last resort. And yet a few states, constrained by the lackluster economy and tight budgets, are reluctantly traveling down that road.
July 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I said, “What did you do before you got this job?” He said, “I was at home for six years watching TV with my parents.”
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, the newest chairman of the National Governors Association, recapping his conversation with a 25 year old who has developmental disabilities and got a job making T-shirts. Markell wants the NGA to focus on helping people with disabilities get jobs.
July 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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The age that teenagers in Lowell, Mass., would be able to vote in municipal elections if a bill passes the state Legislature. If signed into law, Lowell would be the nation's first city to allow under-18 residents to vote in local elections.
July 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Groups Seek to Block Part of Arizona Immigration Law
A coalition of civil rights groups, religious leaders and business organizations filed a new request seeking a court order that would prevent authorities from enforcing a rule that requires police to check the immigration status of people they stop for other reasons.
July 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Compton, California May Declare Bankruptcy by September
Such a move would see it join a growing number of deficit-hobbled California cities that have used the filing to restructure onerous debt loads.
July 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ken Cuccinelli Advises Virginia Gov. to Reject Medicaid Expansion
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the first attorney general in the nation to file a lawsuit over President Obama’s health-care overhaul, wants Virginia to opt of the new federal health law’s Medicaid expansion -- something at least six Republican governors have done.
July 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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